#StuartSpring

Right trusty and well beloved, we greet you well! Welcome to SEASON EIGHT of If It Ain’t Baroque…your independent history podcast!This new season we’re kicking off with a brand new mini series dedicated to the Stuarts, titled #StuartSpring.&nbsp;As our guest today we have Steven Veerapen, and we’ll be chatting all things Mary Queen of Scots. I say chatting, we’ll be busting some myths.&nbsp; Get Steven's Books:https://www.waterstones.com/author/steven-veerapen/4403209https://www.stevenveerapen.com/https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/steven-veerapen/ Get Anna Whitelock's The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of Global Britain:https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sun-rising-9781408863510/ Find Baroque:https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/https://www.reignoflondon.com/https://substack.com/@ifitaintbaroquepodcast Support Baroque:https://www.patreon.com/c/Ifitaintbaroquepodcast/https://buymeacoffee.com/ifitaintbaroque If you would like to join Natalie on her walking tours in London with Reign of London, Stuarts can be found on the following walks:Saxons to Stuarts:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/Stuarts to Windsors:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-georgian-and-windsor-monarchs-walking-tour-t481355 . For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/

Reinventing… Mary Queen of Scots with Steven Veerapen

"I am not as Simple as I May Seem"

Welcome to our 150th episode! As a treat, we have something very special for you today. Heather R Darsie is back on the show, once more we talk of her upcoming book&nbsp;"Katharine of Aragon: Spanish Princess: I Am Not as Simple as I May Seem", published by Amberley Books.This book dives deep into Katharine’s life when she was a young princess in Spain. We get to learn all about her relations and the state of Iberian politics which makes for a fuller picture of Europe in the 16th century, especially if we already know what happened when Katharine arrived in England.&nbsp; Let's re-evaluate what we know of Katharine, as the daughter of Spain.&nbsp; Pre-Order Heather's New Book on Katherine of Aragon:https://www.amberley-books.com/author-community-main-page/d/community-heather-r-darsie/katherine-of-aragon-spanish-princess.html Buy Heather's book Stuart Spouses:https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Stuart-Spouses-A-Compendium-of-Consorts-from-James-I-of-Scotland-to-Queen-Anne-of-Great-Britain-Hardback/p/51167/aid/1238 Heather's The House of Cleves Books:https://www.amberley-books.com/anna-duchess-of-cleves-9781398103269.htmlhttps://www.amberley-books.com/children-of-the-house-of-cleves.html Pre-Order Heather's New Book on Anne Boleyn:https://www.amberley-books.com/if-any-person-will-meddle-of-my-cause.html Heather's Website:https://maidensandmanuscripts.com/ Find Baroque:https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/https://www.reignoflondon.com/https://substack.com/@ifitaintbaroquepodcast Support Baroque:https://www.patreon.com/c/Ifitaintbaroquepodcast/https://buymeacoffee.com/ifitaintbaroque If you would like to join Natalie on her walking tours in London with Reign of London, please follow the links: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452/https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-georgian-and-windsor-monarchs-walking-tour-t481355 . For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroque.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/

Katharine of Aragon: Spanish Princess with Heather R Darsie

Royal Valentines

Welcome to our Royal Romance season. On this episode, we’ll be talking about Georgian Couples that didn’t have a happy ending.&nbsp;Please welcome Catherine Curzon back as we learn more about the Georgian couples whose Happily Ever After seemed to have an expiration date. We’ll talking about George III of Great Britain &amp; Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz&nbsp;andPrincess Charlotte of Wales and Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld. ﻿Our Favourite Books by Catherine: The Crown: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Royal-Family-vs-The-Crown-Hardback/p/51893/aid/1238Georgian Queens: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Queens-of-Georgian-Britain-Hardback/p/14066/aid/1238Georgian Kings: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Kings-of-Georgian-Britain-Hardback/p/12904/aid/1238 Wives of Prince Regent: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Wives-of-George-IV-Hardback/p/20127/aid/1238Life in the Georgian Court: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Life-in-the-Georgian-Court-Hardback/p/12109/aid/1238The Real Bridgerton: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Real-Bridgerton-Hardback/p/23199/aid/1238 Our fangirling over Catherine's first book:https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/post/life-in-the-georgian-court-the-long-18th-century Find Baroque:https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/https://www.reignoflondon.com/https://substack.com/@ifitaintbaroquepodcast Support Baroque:https://www.patreon.com/c/Ifitaintbaroquepodcast/https://buymeacoffee.com/ifitaintbaroque Join Natalie on her Georgian London walking tour:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-georgian-and-windsor-monarchs-walking-tour-t481355

Trouble in Paradise: The Georgian Edition

#ShakeHistory

This is still Shakespeare Week, and today we present our latest episode celebrating this great poet and playwright. Words, words, words, indeed.Next up, we have Carol Ann Lloyd, an author of several books on the Tudors, and she’s also a researcher at the Folger Shakespeare Library.On this episode, Carol Ann and Natalie are exploring Shakespeare's Sassy Leading Ladies, and just how much agency they had over their lives.. Find Carol Ann:https://www.carolannlloyd.com/https://www.instagram.com/shakeuphistory/https://www.youtube.com/@carolannlloydshakeuphttps://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/experts/carol-ann-lloyd/https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolannlloyd/https://linktr.ee/carolannlloyd Get Carol Ann's Books:https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Tudors-by-Numbers-Hardback/p/23448/aid/1238https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Courting-the-Virgin-Queen-Hardback/p/50586/aid/1238 Join Natalie on her Naughty London Walking Tour:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452/ Find Baroque:https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/https://www.reignoflondon.com/https://substack.com/@ifitaintbaroquepodcast Support Baroque:https://www.patreon.com/c/Ifitaintbaroquepodcast/https://buymeacoffee.com/ifitaintbaroque

Shakespeare's Sassy Ladies' Appreciation Tour with Carol Ann Lloyd

This is Shakespeare Week, so we have a mini series of episodes celebrating this great poet and playwright. Words, words, words, indeed. Next up, we have Ramie Targoff and we’ll be talking about her latest book Shakespeare’s Sisters which celebrates the lives of William’s near contemporaries - the ladies who wrote. Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Cary - let’s hear more about these, these women who wrote the Renaissance. Published by Riverrun / Quercus. Get Shakespeare's Sisters:https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/ramie-targoff/shakespeares-sisters/9781529404890/ (UK)https://www.waterstones.com/book/shakespeares-sisters/ramie-targoff/9781529404913 (UK - paperback)https://shop.shakespeare.org.uk/products/shakespeare-s-sisters-four-women-who-wrote-the-renaissance-by-ramie-targoff-signed-by-the-author (UK)https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618090/shakespeares-sisters-by-ramie-targoff/ (USA) Find Ramie:https://ramietargoff.com/about Ramie's Books:https://www.waterstones.com/author/ramie-targoff/469902 For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/ Find more Shakespeare on Natalie's walking tours with Reign of London: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452

Shakespeare's Sisters with Ramie Targoff

This is Shakespeare Week, so we have a mini series of episodes celebrating this great poet and playwright. Words, words, words, indeed.Today our guest is Matt Pinches, the co-founder of Guildford Shakespeare Company.&nbsp;And we’ll be talking about The Comedy of Errors, the play that the company is putting on a bit later in the year…&nbsp; Find GSC:https://www.guildford-shakespeare-company.co.uk/https://www.guildford-shakespeare-company.co.uk/2025-programme/https://www.instagram.com/guildfordshakespeare/https://www.tiktok.com/@guildfordshakespeare Get Tickets for The Comedy of Errors:https://www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/the-comedy-of-errorshttps://www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk/whats-on/a-company-of-rascals Welcome to Our Table:https://guildfordshakespeare.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173661433 For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/ Find more Shakespeare on Natalie's walking tours with Reign of London: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors with Matt Pinches (Guildford Shakespeare Company)

Today is the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, as well as his potential birthday.We’re here to honour this great playwright and poet with a mini season of episodes, all to do with him.First up, is Darren Freebury-Jones with his latest book - SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS - published by Manchester University Press, it’s all about William’s writing process and which authors and friends he was influenced by. Words, words, words, indeed.... Find Darren:https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/https://www.thehistoryofeuropeantheatre.com/guests/darren-feebury-jones/https://stagetalkmagazine.com/p/34306https://www.instagram.com/freeburian/ Borrowed Feathers:https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177322/ (UK)https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeares-borrowed-feathers-playwrights-greatest/dp/1526177323 (USA) For more history fodder please visit https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/ and https://www.reignoflondon.com/ Find more Shakespeare on Natalie's walking tours with Reign of London: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452

Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers with Darren Freebury-Jones

Royal Love Stories Told Wrong: Cupid Painted Blind&nbsp; On this episode we’re looking at the royal love stories which are different from how they’re usually told.To help sort out fact from fiction, we have great historians with us today. The couples we’ll be talking about include:&nbsp;<ul><li>Isabella of France &amp; Edward II of England (Sharon Bennett Connolly)</li><li>Anne Boleyn &amp; Henry VIII..also of England (Amy McElroy)</li><li>Anna of Cleves &amp; also Henry VIII (Heather R Darsie)</li><li>Queen Anne of Great Britain and Prince George of Denmark</li></ul> Find Sharon here:@sharonbennettconnolly on Instagramhttps://historytheinterestingbits.com/ Sharon's Books:https://www.amberley-books.com/silk-and-the-sword.htmlhttps://www.amberley-books.com/discover-books/women-of-the-anarchy.htmlhttps://www.amberley-books.com/heroines-of-the-tudor-world.htmlhttps://www.amberley-books.com/heroines-of-the-medieval-world-9781445689449.htmlhttps://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sharon-Bennett-Connolly/a/3883 Sharon's Scotland's Medieval Queens:https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Scotlands-Medieval-Queens-Hardback/p/51759/aid/1238 Find Amy:https://amymcelroy.blog/ Mary Tudor, Queen of France:https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Mary-Tudor-Hardback/p/51784/aid/1238 Educating the Tudors:https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Educating-the-Tudors-Hardback/p/22338/aid/1238 Women's Lives in the Tudor Era:https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Womens-Lives-in-the-Tudor-Era-Hardback/p/24437/aid/1238 Pre-Order Heather's New Book on Katharine of Aragon and Her Spanish Family:https://www.amberley-books.com/author-community-main-page/d/community-heather-r-darsie/katherine-of-aragon-spanish-princess.html Heather's book on Stuart Spouses:https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Stuart-Spouses-A-Compendium-of-Consorts-from-James-I-of-Scotland-to-Queen-Anne-of-Great-Britain-Hardback/p/51167/aid/1238 Heather's The House of Cleves Books:https://www.amberley-books.com/anna-duchess-of-cleves-9781398103269.htmlhttps://www.amberley-books.com/children-of-the-house-of-cleves.html Heather's Website:https://maidensandmanuscripts.com/ Join Natalie on her London walking tours: Monarchy Anglo-Saxons to Stuarts: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-the-royal-british-kings-and-queens-walking-tour-t426011/ Monarchy Stuarts to Windsors: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-georgian-and-windsor-monarchs-walking-tour-t481355 Naughty London: https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/london-unsavory-history-guided-walking-tour-t428452/ and a new one on British Monarchy:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/british-monarchy-walking-tour-saxons-to-windsors-t481358/ https://www.ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/

Royal Love Stories Told Wrong: Cupid Painted Blind 

Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England

On the 19th April 1824 at the age of 36, George Gordon Byron, the 6th Baron died in Greece.Today we sit down and talk to Emily Brand, a Georgian historian and the biographer of the Byron family.We’ll be discussing her book The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England released by John Murray Press (Hachette UK). Welcome, Emily!&nbsp; The Fall of the House of Byron:https://www.johnmurraypress.co.uk/titles/emily-brand/the-fall-of-the-house-of-byron/9781473664326/ Signed Copy:https://www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page/the-fall-of-the-house-of-byron-pb-with-signed-bookplate Find Emily:https://www.emilybrand.co.uk/https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/emilybrandhttps://greatbritishspeakers.co.uk/talents/emily-brand-speaker/ Get Emily's Books:https://www.waterstones.com/author/emily-brand/12381 Georgian London Walking Tours:https://www.getyourguide.com/london-l57/royal-london-from-tudors-stuarts-to-windsors-walking-tour-t481355/ Find Natalie:https://ifitaintbaroquepodcast.art/https://linktr.ee/IfItAintBaroquePodcasthttps://www.reignoflondon.com/

The Fall of the House of Byron with Emily Brand

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